Murcian regional election, 2011

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All 45 seats in the Regional Assembly of Murcia
23 seats needed for a majority

Opinion polls

Registered

974,998

1.2%

Turnout

662,086 (67.9%)

0.1 pp

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Ramón Luis Valcárcel	Begoña García Retegui	José Antonio Pujante
Party	PP	PSOE	IU–V–RM
Leader since	5 October 1991	3 October 2010	2006
Last election	29 seats, 58.3%	15 seats, 32.0%	1 seat, 6.3%
Seats won	33	11	1
Seat change	4	4	0
Popular vote	382,871	155,506	50,988
Percentage	58.8%	23.9%	7.8%
Swing	0.5 pp	8.1 pp	1.5 pp

Constituency results map for the Regional Assembly of Murcia

President before election

Ramón Luis Valcárcel
PP

Elected President

Ramón Luis Valcárcel
PP

The 2011 Murcian regional election was held on Sunday, 22 May 2011, to elect the 8th Regional Assembly of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia. All 45 seats in the Regional Assembly were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in 12 other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain.

The election was won by the People's Party (PP), which obtained its best result ever in the Region. With over 70% of the seats (33), it obtained thrice the number of seats of the second most voted party, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), which plummeted to just below 24% and 11 seats. The PP had won its first election in 1995, and under Ramón Luis Valcárcel it had achieved an absolute majority of seats and votes in all elections held ever since.

All in all, the PP gained four seats from the PSOE, with United Left (IU) holding its solitary seat but gaining ground, increasing its % of the share from 6.3% to 7.8%. The 5% regional threshold prevented Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD) from winning a seat as, although it polled 5.3% in District Three, its vote in the entire Murcian region was 4.5%.

The 45 members of the Regional Assembly of Murcia were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with a threshold of 5 per 100 of valid votes—which included blank ballots—being applied regionally. Parties not reaching the threshold were not taken into consideration for seat distribution. Seats were allocated to constituencies, which were established by law to comprise the following municipalities:

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